Nukes up for grabs in Pakistan?

oh, yes... musharraf's declaration of martial law is sure helping the war on terror... goodness me... while the police are rounding up lawyers and beating them, the terrorists are taking advantage of the chaos and getting bolder, this in a country that ALREADY possesses nuclear weapons, unlike you-know-who, that OTHER country we've been beating the war drums about...

The nuclear state, which is battling encroaching al Qaeda fighters at its borders, has descended into chaos after President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency and suspended Pakistan's constitution. Taliban fighters and al Qaeda terrorists who had sought refuge in the mountainous border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan are moving into more populated regions of Pakistan and they appear emboldened by the chaos erupting from Musharraf's crackdown.

"Pakistani analysts are increasingly questioning General Musharraf’s contention that emergency rule was needed to help him fight terrorism," reports David Rohde in a New York Times analysis Tuesday. Across the country, policemen and intelligence agents have been diverted from hunting terrorists to arresting lawyers, who apparently are being assessed as the greater threat to the general’s rule."

The threat becomes even more dire when one considers what would happen to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal if the country becomes further destabilized. Estimates of Pakistan's weapons cache range from 24 to 48 nuclear warheads and some say there could be as many as 100 nukes in the country.

sweet...

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